Leicester PGCE

Ideas and resources from Lisa's session

University of Leicester 4th April 2011

Firstly - here's the Linoit I started on Twitter to pool ideas - you might want to add some of your own!

And here's my presentation!

Teachers TV clips

Online communities (inc Voki, Audacity, Voicethread)
Podcasting in the classroom

Blabberize

Use -

• to encourage speaking
• to describe animals
• for presentations
• as an alternative to Voki

eg Falkirk Primary Schools

Voki

Use -

• to individualise speaking tasks
• for speaking activities in MFL
• for checking accuracy of spelling in MFL
• to share poetry
• to introduce projects / websites etc

eg WCPS wikispace

Voicethread

Use -

• collaboration across classes / groups
• ICU (intercultural understanding)
• sharing ideas and opinions
• assessing learning

eg Interesting ways ....

Audacity

Use

• to record for free!
• for sound effects for a poem
• to reorder stories
• to rehearse and refine
• to record soundfiles for others to use
• to publish and podcast

eg more ideas from Glow

Powerpoint narration

Use

• to support non specialist
• to practice intonation, rhythm, rhyme
• to tell stories from a set of pictures

eg

'Gadgets'

• Easispeaks - mobile, easy to use, USB v helpful
• Talking postcards - great for talking displays, messages
• Sound shuffles - sorting exercises
• Talktrackers - talk topic - what are they saying?
• Talking tins/pegs - order vocabulary items; match alphabet
• puppy - pass the puppy